Stuff

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Bonze’s egg! (That’s my box, not the one he used. It had 100-yen-shop marbles in it.)

The other Niigata Station naked lady statues. You need to click and zoom in, but there’s only two of them, so apparently these aren’t the Three Graces. I think there’s a plaque explaining them up in the greenery someplace, but I couldn’t get to it without risking life and limb.

Japan’s giving everyone stimulus checks of 12000 yen (about $120). McDonalds is thus apparently selling 20000 yen gift certificates for 12000. The words that the fist is holding up say something like “Catch some business!”, suggesting that your purchase of this gift certificate will reinvigorate the economy, I guess?

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Comments

[elongated-tito.livejournal.com]

I take you have still not decided to do with the precious egg?

And does this stimulus check thing apply to you? Personally, I think this is a very practical solution, but I do not see New York implementing it.

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I resolved to eat the egg, but still haven't done so. I don't know if it's still okay? I'm such a bad egg recipient.

Yes, it does apply to me, unless I got my application in too late - when they sent it to me, it came with a bunch of junk mail, and I didn't realize what it was for about six weeks. (Do not ask why I left stuff I thought was junk mail sitting around for six weeks. I had a very good reason.) I don't actually think I was late, though, because there was no deadline on the packet, and I know a town nearby's deadline is October.